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Amanda Butterfield Reporting It was a holiday for kids in school today, but two teenagers just couldn't stay away. Now they're in big trouble.
The two don't even go to school at Vista Elementary, but still, they wanted in. So with a hammer, they got in.
Chief Randy Johnson, Granite School District P.D. "So they shattered that out, reached through and opened up the bottom."
That's how a 13 and 15-year old got into the 6th grade classroom at Vista Elemntary School. And the broken window was just the beginning.
Chief Randy Johnson: "There was some gang graffitti and some obscenitites written on the walls. The desks were upside-down, books on the floor."
It was just before 3:00 this morning that the teens went on the rampage, but when they broke the window, they triggered an alarm and a dispatch could hear everything.
Chief Randy Johnson: "She could hear what sounded to be breaking items inside and people moving around."
Unknown to the teens inside, police had the school surrounded minutes later. By then the teens had hit two other rooms, broken more windows and rifled through the teachers' desks looking for money.
Then they left with a backpack full of stolen goods, right into the hands of waiting police officers.
Chief Randy Johnson: "They didn't have much to say; they were pretty quiet."
The room may look tidy now, but that's after hours of cleanup. The maintenance people got it cleaned up in a hurry, well enough that the sixth graders may not even know anything happened there.
The teens face burglary, theft and vandalism charges.
